Beamless

My life is simple now, and when the fog lifts, the boat is filled with, as John Muir said, "holy, beamless, bodyless, inaudible floods of light." ❋ Katie Amatruda (2011)

Before I arrived in sight of it, all that remained of day was a beamless amber light along the west: but I could see every pebble on the path, and every blade of grass, by that splendid moon. ❋ Unknown (2002)

She was now at her full, and when at length she came up out of the sea, her disc, broad and red like a beamless sun, seemed to rest, dilated to preternatural size, upon the edge of the last wave that swelled against the horizon. ❋ Richard Archer (N/A)

New Town, and Ellen was looking up the side-street that opened just opposite and revealed, menacing as the rattle of spears, the black rock and bastions of the Castle against the white beamless glare of the southern sky. ❋ Rebecca West (1937)

Ellen was looking up the sidestreet that opened just opposite and revealed, menacing as the rattle of spears, the black rock and bastions of the Castle against the white beamless glare of the southern sky. ❋ Grant Martin Overton (1908)

The giant warned him of the dangers which he would encounter, saying that the mountain passage was twelve miles long and beamless and black. ❋ Donald Alexander Mackenzie (1904)

Here is a road seen between sunset and moonrise: "... all that remained of day was a beamless amber light along the west: but I could see every pebble on the path, and every blade of grass, by the light of that splendid moon". ❋ May Sinclair (1904)

An Eagle with stretched wings, but beamless eye -- ❋ Unknown (1888)

For as surely as we see the sun vanish in the west this evening, feeble and beamless, so surely shall we behold him to-morrow morning rise again in the east, glorious, vigorous and young. ❋ Unknown (1879)

Except for Felicita's presence in the village behind him he would have felt himself in another world; in a beamless and lifeless abyss, where there was no creature like unto himself; only eternal gloom and solitude. ❋ Hesba Stretton (1871)

The roar grew muffled, phantoms poured along the pavement, yellow beamless lights were in the shop-windows, all the vehicles went at a slow march. ❋ George Meredith (1868)

Meantime the moon had dropped, and morning, grey and beamless, looked on the house-peaks and along the streets with steadier eye. ❋ George Meredith (1868)

Carefully securing the doors, they walked over the fields together, pausing on the hilltop to listen to the caw of the gathering crows, or to watch the ruby disc of the beamless sun stooping to touch the western rim of the valley. ❋ Bayard Taylor (1851)

A beamless Chaos, cursed of God, through outer darkness borne? ❋ John Greenleaf Whittier (1849)